(1926-03-31)31 March 1926 Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England
Died
5 November 2005(2005-11-05) (aged 79) Lyme Regis, Dorset, England
Occupation
Writer, teacher
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh New College, Oxford
Period
1960–2005
Notable works
The Collector The Magus The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Robert Fowles (/faʊlz/; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.
After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired The Magus (1965), an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s "hippy" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life. Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa
(1982), and A Maggot (1985).
Fowles's books have been translated into many languages, and several have been adapted as films.
John Robert Fowles (/faʊlz/; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work...
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The Ebony Tower (1974) by JohnFowles is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes, each built around a medieval myth:[citation...
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collection of several hundred philosophical aphorisms by English author JohnFowles. A revised edition, without the subtitle, which was shorter but also...
for an Oscar for his work on the 1965 film The Collector, based on the JohnFowles novel of the same title. He worked in many different genres, but his...
literary nature writing in the tradition of [Robert] Macfarlane and JohnFowles, ripe with insight and erudition." Rachel Cooke of The Observer called...
filmmakers. He starred in The Collector (1965), William Wyler's adaptation of JohnFowles' novel of the same name, opposite Samantha Eggar, and in Modesty Blaise...
Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing, starred in Mark Healey's adaptation of JohnFowles' The Collector, and toured the US with the Royal Shakespeare Company...
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